When you’re looking for a good restaurant or an honest car mechanic, it’s now possible to consult a service like Yelp! for a referral you can trust. In the same way, IT Central Station has opened a way to give and get referrals on enterprise technology, and the group recently issued the results of its […]

It’s well-known by now that the true cost of finding a bug early in the software development lifecycle is far lower than if you find it later. Some studies have found that a bug discovered late can cost 1,000 times more to root out and repair. But how can we test more code earlier and […]

Yes, I know. You’re finally going to lose that surplus 35 pounds in 2016. Me, too. But let’s talk for a moment about some other New Year’s resolutions that are easily within your reach in the upcoming year. They won’t help you fit into those jeans you wore in college, but they will make your […]

So you say you’re not a software company. Maybe you’re a bank. Or a retailer. Or a government agency. But not a software company, right? Yeah, we’ve heard that one before. Here’s the thing, though: Today, every company is a software company. If you’re not adding digital components to connect with customers and enrich those […]

Wow, what a week for software failure! (No, we’re not cheering for failure. Read the exclamation point as a jeer.) On the same day one of the world’s largest airlines was brought to a halt, the New York Stock Exchange stopped trading – all because of entirely avoidable systems issues. And that wasn’t all the […]

In today’s application driven economy, the name of the game is speed. The game being played in every industry is that of trying to bring new digital innovations to market faster than competitors, delivering new code to production that helps you “stay up with the Jones’s.” Everything is moving quicker as companies try to achieve […]

When I read last year that a Russian crime ring has amassed 1.2 billion combinations of user names and passwords, I wussed out. “The black hats are winning!” I cried. Fortunately, Alex Holden is here to drop some knowledge on me. Even though the information security company that he founded, Hold Security LLC, was the […]

As the Internet of Things (IoT) move from a buzzword to new reality, organizations need to take a holistic approach in aligning their software development practices with physical devices. Gartner expects the IoT to lead to 26 billion new connected devices by 2020 and $1.8 trillion in new business value. We caught up with Mike […]

Agent technology promises to greatly simplify the software development process by better modeling how software is expected to perform with how business users think about how their business works. While the underlying concepts have been around for some time, actually putting them into practice requires enterprises to use new principles for developing applications. Agent technology […]

It’s hard to believe, but it has been more than five years since the series of events in Belgium that helped kick off the software development technique called DevOps. And I confess that I viewed the fifth anniversary, which passed in 2014, as a bittersweet milestone. On one hand, the movement is clearly gaining traction, […]